Lawyers for Oracle and Google gave the judge overseeing their Java patent dispute a tutorial on Wednesday that underscored the complexity of the case between the two companies.

An appeals court rules that Google violated Oracle's copyright when it built a version of Java for the Android operating system, in the latest twist in an 8-year saga.

A federal appeals court on Friday granted Oracle an appeal in its case against Google. Specifically, the court ruled that code within the Java platform is , in fact, entitled to copyright protection.

Oracle doesn't know when to quit. After Google beat Oracle yet again this past May, Oracle, of course, appealed. And, of course, they lost again. To recap, Oracle claimed the 37 Java application ...